The Tibetans portrayed here are not represented as downtrodden victims, but as a courageous people waiting for an opportunity to show their worth. Dont Say No to a Tibetan is not a slogan. The title sends a message to the Chinese that the karmic retribution for treading on an innocent people will be great. The book makes a distinction between the brutal no! of the aggressor and the well thought out No of the person open to dialogue. Tibetans have a perfect right to say No to their colonizers. To learn to fight back as an organized movement is now a necessity.

Don't Say No to a Tibetan (Dharamsala Chronicles), Bertrand Odelys, LTWA, Paperback, 356 Pages, $22.00

Bertrand Odelys was born in Vacoas , Mauritius. In 1959, he moved to London with his family, where his father was appointed by the Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture to represent the interests of the Mauritian sugar industry . He completed his secondary education at the Lycée Français in London and obtained his BA in history from Magdalen College , Oxford . He studied in Vienna , Austria, at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, and then at Harvard in the United States, where he obtained a doctorate in film history on Vertov at the Fogg Art Museum. He is a specialist in Dziga Vertov He teaches in New York, makes films in Paris, and restores old books in Great Britain, France, and India.From 1997 to 2003, he lived and wrote in Crestone , a sanctuary village for interfaith dialogue in Colorado, where the Manitou Foundation was founded by Hanne Strong, with whom he is working on a book about the prophets.He Works in Dharamsala, Tibetan Chronicles , preface by the Dalai Lama.